• Canadian mountaineer climbs all the peaks depicted on a $10 bill, because why not? (CBC News).
• Zimbabwe's "inexcusable" lack of its own currency (zimeye.com).
• Controversy over a new 20,000-Franc note in Guinea (Die Welt, in German).
• As long as they don't mention evolution, then maybe it's OK (wral.com).
• A skeptical take on a local currency for Lyon, France (rue89lyon.com, in French).
• Another local currency will be introduced in Strasbourg, "le Stück" (l'Est Republicain, in French).
• 19th Century New Jersey banknote proofs (E-Sylum).
• A short look back at Thompson's Bank Note Reporter (Slate).
• A critical view of India's blind-friendly notes (HuffPost India).
• Japan's Hansatu notes (cgb.fr, in French).
• Some notes sold at the Stack's Bowers auction in Hong Kong (CoinWeek)
• Prospects for an Islamic State currency (CoinsWeekly).
• A Hungarian banknote changes its hue (Hungary Today).
• Charles Goodhart wants to abolish the 500 Euro and 1000 Sfr notes. "The ECB and the Swiss National Bank are absolutely shameless in this regard" (Bloomberg).
• Following the money to NYC's Museum of American Finance (Wall Street Journal).

                                   

                                   "Schafft den Drogenschein ab" (Handelsblatt).

If Jane Austen were on a Ten-Pound Note (The Telegraph)

A big counterfeiting bust in Guangdong (China Daily USA). Many good pictures here (Shanghaiist). I wouldn't have been so messy. Fake 500-Baht note in Trang (Bangkok Post). He said, she said (St. George News). Sentencing for an inside job in Florida (SunSentinel). Francis Greenway, forger (ozy.com.) This out-of-work printer became self-employed (Daily Record). Motion picture money, in motion (Brainerd Dispatch, via E-Sylum).

                                                Chinese fakes (Shanghaiist)

               

• The Republika Srpska chapter of The Banknote Book.

• Show me the money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present, at the Peoples History Museum, Manchester, July 11, 2015-
• "Money in Lithuania, 1914-1945", at Lithuania's Money Museum.
• Banknote 2016, May 23-26 2016, Washington, D.C.